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Private  Reserves. 
So  well  is  this  understood  that  a very  large  percentage  of  the 
area  which  it  is  now  proposed  be  officially  recognized  as  the 
Lihue-Koloa  Forest  Reserve  has  for  many  years  been  protected 
from  cattle  and  treated  as  private  forest  reserves  by  the  planta- 
tion companies  owning  or  controlling  the  lands. 
The  Lihue  Sugar  Plantation  Company  was  the  pioneer  in  this 
work.  Ever  since  1894  that  company  has  maintained  at  its  own 
expense  a forest  fence  from  the  boundary  of  its  lands,  near  the 
Kilohana  Crater,  across  Hanamaulu  and  Wailua  to  a natural  bar- 
rier near  Hanahanapuni  Hill.  No  cattle  have  been  allowed  above 
this  fence  and  the  forest  has  been  protected  from  fire  and  trespass. 
This  is  not  the  place  for  a discussion  of  forest  planting  but 
even  the  briefest  description  of  the  forest  conditions  at  Lihue 
would  be  incomplete  without  mention  of  the  excellent  work  that 
has  been  done  by  the  Lihue  Plantation  in  forest  planting  The 
first  plantation  to  take  up  systematic  tree  planting  on  a large 
scale — the  work  began  in  1882 — over  1,100  acres  have  now  been 
planted  with  trees  of  economic  value,  and  the  work  is  actively 
going  on.  This  is  a record  of  which  any  company  might  well 
be  proud.  The  value  of  the  planting  that  has  been  done  will  be- 
come more  and  more  apparent  as  time  goes  on,  for  with  the  stead- 
ily increasing  prices  of  all  wood  products  those  companies  that 
have  forest  plantations  of  their  own  will  be  in  much  better  case 
than  those  that  have  to  depend  altogether  on  outside  sources  of 
supplv. 
Following  the  lead  of  the  Lihue  Plantation  Company  the 
McBryde  Sugar  Company  and  Mr.  G.  N.  Wilcox  have  both  built 
and  maintained  forest  fences  across  their  mauka  lands  and  have 
kept  cattle  out  from  the  section  so  reserved.  The  McBryde  fence 
was  built  in  1905 ; the  section  above  Grove  Farm  was  set  apart  in 
1906. 
Although  not  in  connection  with  the  forest  reserve,  mention 
should  also  be  made  here  of  the  tree  planting  now  in  progress  on 
Grove  Farm  and  on  the  lands  of  the  McBryde  and  the  Koloa 
plantations.  Excellent  work  is  also  being  done  on  the  lands  near 
the  McBryde  homestead  by  Mr.  Walter  D.  McBryde.  All  of 
this  tree  planting  is  of  distinct  importance,  for  while  it  helps 
most  directly  those  who  start  the  trees  it  is  also  of  indirect  benefit 
to  the  whole  community. 
The  Boundary. 
As  the  makai  boundary  of  the  proposed  Lihue-Koloa  Forest 
Reserve  the  existing  forest  fences,  with  the  natural  barriers 
along  the  way,  have  been  chosen  as  being  the  best  line  that  could 
be  selected.  Starting  at  Hanapepe  the  boundary  follows  the 
forest  fence  of  the  McBryde  Sugar  Company,  except  that  it  takes 
